[Cincinna]

•••UPDATE ALERT••• *** FRENCH POLITICS AND CULTURE PING LIST ***

*** FREEPMAIL ME IF YOU WANT TO JOIN   *** At this moment, more than 24 hours after the seige began, the presumed killer, Mohamed Merah, was still inside his apartment, surrounded by French riot police. Electricity and water have been cut off.

[GeronL]

I guess all those riots don’t count as Islamic motivated violence??

[Cincinna]

President Sarkozy, as head of state, presided over the funeral of the three murdered soldiers shot down in cold blood in the street in Montauban and Toulouse.
He rallied the French people to honor their fallen heroes, who died defending their country and the French people.
It was a somber, very moving, deeply felt tribute.
At this moment, the cowardly suspect is holed up in his rathole, surrounded by French riot police, who are determined to wait him out in this siege that has lasted more than a day.
It eerily recalls the incident of Sarko and HB, the human bomb, who took a kindergarten in Neuilly hostage, while Sarko was Mayor.
This is a man with nerves of steel, unshakeable determination and moral courage.
May God be with the French people as they fight the homegrown enemy in their midst.

[bruinbirdman]

Operative words, "political religious groups" . . . .

yitbos

[Berlin_Freeper]

Mohamed. That name rings a bell.

Wasn’t that the name of 10,000’s other murderers in recent years?

[iowamark]

Marine Le Pen... “It is time to wage war on these fundamentalist political religious groups who are killing our children,”

"fundamentalist political religious groups"? Is she afraid to say the word Muslim? Or does she believe that Christians and Jews are engaged in similar terrorism?